The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-11-03

some rolls of goods on the child's arm,
package after package, and some one said,
"ThGt child is being overloaded and as
murh ought not 10 be put upon her," when
the child responded, "Father knows heW
much l can carry" and God, our Father.
will not allow 10 much imposition. on his
children. In the day of eternity II will be
found you had not one annoyance too,
many, not one aspiration too many, not
one outrage too many. Your Heavenly
Father knows how much you can carry.
Z Again: We should not let the sun 90
down on our wrath because it is of little
importance what the world says of you OF
does to you when you have the aauent God
Of the sunset as your proriderand defender
People talk as though 1t were fixed spec
tacle OF nature and always tha same. But
no one ever saw Two sunsets alike, and II
the world has existed G,o00 years there
have been about ,, 100000 sunsets, each OF
them as distinct from MI the other pictures
in the gallery OF the sky as Titian's Last
SINNER" Rubens Descent from the
Cross, " RaphaePs TRANSPORTATION" and
Michael Ang clos "Last Judgment" are
distinct from each other. IL thNt God OF
such infinite resources that He can put on
the wall Of the sky each ni9ht more than the
| Louvre, and the Luxembourg, and the
| Vatican, and Dresden and Venetian CALLER
| les all in Ole is my God and your God,
our proyider and protector, what IS the use
| of our worrying about any human antag-
onism? If we are misinterprete9, the God
| Of the many co o. ed sunset can put the
right color on our action. If be can afford
| TO hang such masterpieces over the outside
| wall OF Heaven and have them oblilerated
| in an hour, he must DO very rich in re"
| sources aud cun put us through IN safety.
| Ii all the ggrnture of the western heavens
at eventide is but the upholstery OF one OF
the windows of our future home, what
small business for us TO be chasing ene~
mics! Let not this Sabbath's sun go down
upon your wrath.
Mahomet said: "The sword is the key
of Heaven and hell, drop Of blood shOd
is better than fasting, and wounds in tha
day of jud ment resplendent MS yermiliOn,
| and odoriferous as musk" But, my
hearers, in the last day We will find Iust
the opposite of that to be true, and that
the sword never uulocks Heaven, and thai
He who heals wounds is grenler than hs
who makes them, and that on ihe same
ring are two keys. Gods forgi,enass of us
and our forgiveness of enemies; and these
two KEYS IN ocl Paradise,
And now wish for all Of you beautiful
sunset in your earthly existence. With
some Of you it hNs been long day OF
trouble, and with others Of you il will bs
far from calm. Whom the sun rose at
o'clock it was the morning Of youth, and
fair day was prophesied, but by the time
the MONDAY of midi had come and the
clock of your earthly existence had struck
II, cloud racks gathered and tempests bell
lowed in the rack of tempest. But as the
evening of old age approaches pray God
the skies may brighten and the clouds ba
piled up into pillars as of celestial temples
TO which you go, or move as with mounted
cohorts come to take YOU home.
And as you sink out of sight below the
horizon may there be radiance Of Chris
tian example lingering long after you are
gone, and on the heavens be written in
letters Of sapphire, and on the waters in
letters of opal, and on the hills in lettera
OF emerald: "Thy sun shall no more 80
down, neither shall thy moon withdrav
itself, for the Lord shall be thine everlaSt'
ing light and the days of thy mourning
shall be ended" So shall the sunset ol
earlh become the sunrise of Heaven.